More Bureaucracy

Forgot to mention in my post, below, that I called the Syrian embassy and my visa was rejected...really don't know what I'll do, now, for Christmas/New Year. :*(

WOW I was tired when I did my last post. I kept falling asleep and waking up while I was typing, lol. Just woke up from almost 5 hours of nap, and need to make a plan to get this LAST paper squeezed out. It will involve a lot of text explication, and I always find these analysis papers (like in art history) much less torturous to write -- you develop your theoretical framework and you apply it to something...it's a pretty easy process -- but it's STILL a paper, which means it is torture in some way. Right now it's almost 7PM, and I'd like to have one of the three sections (I'm analyzing the banning of three texts) written before I got to bed, and hopefully pump one out in the AM, leaving myself with only one left for tomorrow evening (aka: NOT another 30 hours wherein 20 are a straight chunk of typing in different places in Cairo -- yesterday was AUC library, Grand Hyatt food court, then my house, assisted with two rather yummy MacDonald's cappuccinos!).

Still pissed at AUC that it is so twisted. The AUC press should publish a manual: how to get your students to NOT give back as alumns and trash-talk you when you go back home to the exact US universities from which they wish they had more students.

Unfortunately, despite any effort I could make to discourage students from coming here, there will ALWAYS be the government job seekers who salivate at the thought of their State Department/CIA files getting a boost from Arabic and living in the region.

Gotta eat!

VC